Socket attachment for harness.



A. H. WESTERMAN.

SOCKET ATTACHMENT FOB. HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1913.

1,129,148., Patented Feb. 23, 1915.

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SOCKET ATTACHMENT FOR HARNESS.

Application filed. July 22, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUeUsTUs I-I. WESTER- MAN, a citizen of the. United States, and a resident of Rogers, in the county of Bell and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Socket Attachment for Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to harness construction, and more particularly to a device whereby one strap of a harness is slidably connected with another strap, the device serving to reinforce that strap through which the slidable strap extends.

The general object of the invention is the provision of a simple, inexpensive and reliable metallic socket that is especially adapted for use in back straps to afford means in which the hip straps are slidable, although the device may be used in other connections.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a metallic socket or eyelet of tubular form having securing means at its ends for engaging the strap to which it is applied, and also an anchoring tongue or shank, the socket being especially designed for multi-ply straps, although it is not limited to such.

With these objects in view, and others as will appear as the description proceeds, the

: invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one embodiment of the invention, and wherein similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a strap having the metal socket applied thereto; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the strap inverted; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the socket before it is applied to the strap; Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the socket secured to a filler piece of the strap; Fig. 5 is a blank from which the socket is made; and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modified form of the device.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a back or other strap of a harness and B the hip strap which is slidable through the back strap. The back strap is shown in the present instance as consisting of two layers or plies 1 and 2 between which is inserted Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 23, 1915. Serial No. 780,465.

a socket C. This socket is of tubular form and comprises a top 1, bottom 2 and side walls 3 and 4:, the latter being formed by the overlapping ends a and b of the blank shown in Fig. 5, and on the top 1 are lateral extensions 5 at the open ends of the socket which are bent upwardly to engage the side edges of the upper ply 1 of the strap A. These lugs or extensions 5 may be lon enough to overlie the top surface of the strap, as shown in Fig. 1, and in this case the extensions 5 are bent on the lines 6 and 6*, Fig. 5. The extensions 5 may however be just short enough to engage the edges of the ply 1 of the strap A without overlying the top of the same. The socket shown in Fig. 6 is provided with short lugs, as just described. These lugs 5 may be used as the sole means for retaining the socket in the strap, especially when the socket is applied to a strap already in use, but in manufacturing the strap a secondary securing means may be provided on the socket so that the latter will be constructed as shown in Fig. 3 instead of being made as shown in Fig. 6. That is to say, the socket will be provided with a tongue 7 extending from one side of the socket and at right-angles to the axis of the latter and approximately in the same plane with the bottom 2. This tongue has apertures 8 for receiving rivets or other fastening devices 9 by which the tongue is fastened to a filler piece 10 inserted between the plies 1 and 2 of the strap A. This filler piece 10 and also the filler piece 11 fill the gap formed between the plies of the strap by the insertion of the socket C, and the filler pieces are fastened in place by the threads 12 which secure the plies of the strap together. In order to hold the ends of the blank from which the socket is made the end a is provided with a locking tongue 18 which is inserted through a slot 14 at one edge of the top 1 of the socket, and after the tongue 13 is inserted it is bent backwardly flat against the top 1, as clearly shown in'Figs. 3 and 6. In forming the socket from the blank the latter is bent on the lines 15. 16, 17 and 18 and the attaching tongue 7 is bent on the line 19, the direction of bending being such that a tubular body is formed with the ends a and b overlapping, and the tongue 7 extending outwardly in the plane of the bottom 2. The tongue 13 and aperture 14 constitute means for detachably fastening the overlapping ends III) of the blank together, so that the socket can be spread open to permit a strap to be inserted in the latter when the strap is of such a nature that it has bifurcations at its ends, as, for instance, the hip straps commonly used with buggy harness.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and method of operation and of the device shown will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A socket made from a single blank of metal bent into a box-like body open at both ends, said body having in one of its faces and adjacent the edge thereof a slot, a tongue on one end of the blank and arranged to extend outwardly from within the body through the said slot and bent backwardly on the exterior of the body, and

a shank on the opposite end of the blank and extending from the body at a point intermediate the ends thereof and at right angles to the axis of the body.

2. A socket made from a single blank of metal bent into a flat box-like body open at both ends, one of the flat faces having an opening, a tongue on one end of the blank and arranged to extend out of the body through the said opening and being bent against the outer surface of the body, and a shank on the other end of the blank and extending from the body and flush with one of the flat sides thereof, with the axis of the shank at right-angles to the longitudinal axis of the body. a

3. A socket made from a single blank of metal and bent into a box-like body open at both ends, a tongue on one end of the blank and the other end having an opening in which the tongue interlocks, and a shank on the end of the blank in which the opening is provided.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUSTUS H. WESTERMAN.

Htnesses R. E. GUESS, PEARL PATTERSON.

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Washington, D. G. 

